What is the name of this archetype of character?

Bog standard indie protag

SimpleCute

Always despised how you played as a pathetic manlet in Hollow Knight
The actual Hollow Knight would've been a better prota

Not generic human protag at least.

"let's make a character so simple and cute so that nearly no one will hate it"

kodama

CUTE!!

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lazy indie design

"The easy to draw blank slate you can push anything on to and also have even the most retarded person easily draw their fan art of it and have more google/twitter results for it"

A pathetic manlet that can kick the Sun´s ass. Literally. And where does the actual Knight stand in this lol?

kek't

Avatar / Cursor? it just represents you like a curser represents you, nothing more.

cute uwu

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>Small character is actually super mega powerful!
Yawn

White furfag trash

The best
post more if you have any

See as proof

le indie game face

So what? HK just is notAstorias.

>the indie white blob of unoriginality

It's the "I want my character to have quite a few animations, but I don't have the time or money to animate a complex design" archetype.

This is the perfect analysis

The player character in Hollow Knight is a child, technically

O O

I'm doing my first run of rain world and I finally got past the leeches in the drainage area and now I'm stuck in the garbage wastes because I have no karma, what the fuck do I do

Really doubt you could do better without pouring much more time and money with a better detailed character unless you´re some middle A studios.

hes not a manlet, the point is he's small, his growth is through the game

Eh I really doubt that would be any different with a more detailed character.

I'm glad Hollow Knights sequel is making Hornet the main character. She definitely stands out a lot better than the knight and feels more unique.

Baba is honestly the most charming character of the four just because they're basically a childrens doodle. Something about it's simplicity suits the nature of the game perfectly.

G-guys?

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>Yea Forums complains that four characters look similar and how that’s the worst thing ever
>Yea Forums also defends the generic gruff white dude protagonist
It’s okay when AAA does it, but not indies!

only one of those was used to good effect
survive and explore

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Baba. You're usually it in the game.

Character is Cute

Babased

That was kinda the point of the game of The Knight not being that unique though. Hell HK was practically the Knight when it was younger except for having different horns.

>pixelshit
Nah man dont oversell the thing.

Pffft, Hollow Knight is a jobber

Minimalist anthro character.
They are usually white to make them easier to distinguish in levels which are usually colorful or gray or black in comparison.
You can instantly find the sluugcat in any cluster fuck of a scene in rain world because of this.

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what's there to oversell?

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yes

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baba is hero

>describing anything as pixelshit
Imagine being such a nigger

Too much detail

Why is Baba so based?

Baba is like an 18x18 sprite with less than 30 total frames of animation, most of which are the same thing redrawn so it wobbles. Rain World is full of complex designs, since it's animated procedurally.

I don't think ease of animation is necessarily the reason, more like ease of visual recognition. What these games have in common is lots of color and clutter and the camera is zoomed out to frame the background rather than the character.

Source? "Gal" is too generic of a name for me to find anything

>He didnt become a giant tentacle monster
Git gud

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Cute! They're all cute!
Slug-cat especially.

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I wish I could get into this game but I just cant, these fucking chickens with scissors for faces keep fucking me in the ass and even if I get super lucky and can basically run to the right at full speed without ever stopping or slowing down due to RNG of scissor chicken placement the rain still starts before I can get to the next checkpoint.

Lazy design

Marketable

I'm pretty sure it's "Borb"

You can say the same about AAA games with the generic blank slate protagonists. They´re done in this case for easy self insert.

you're underestimating the number of hiding spots, there's a lot of them
also throw the blue balls at them
also git gud
it's a very frustrating game though that's for sure

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Closer, but the eyes are too small

elemental autism

I figured out that, problem is I can't hide. Did you miss the part about even if I get lucky and sprint to the end, its raining by the time I get to the screen with the small cave with bugs you can eat in it, zero chance I can get to the next shelter.

what's 4?

Ori

Did Ori 2 ever even fucking release

cycle length varies death to death. regardless, as long as you're moving whenever you don't hear scissors and don't get too unlucky you should work out fine. it's never treated me too badly.
there's a cliff in front of the shelter after getting to the next area

Reddit

In his defense he literally helps the ghost knight by stabbing himself. He's trying to let you kill him.

It's the Giegue/Giygas archetype

Wondering if I got the shortest possible cycle length then, in which case im kind of screwed and will need to restart since there isnt really enough food in the vicinity to reroll the cycle.

life to life, i mean. every time you die, it's a different length of time you'll have to try again.
any of them should be fine, really, though.
now farm arrays later, that's a different story.

wow, did i word that poorly or what?

lazily drawn

minimalist garbage

LE NUMALIEN TOXOPLASMITE

made me laugh out loud

Absolutely based.

Nu furry

What did he mean by this

Bland and inoffensive

Scheduled to release this year. We'll probably get a release date at E3

does undertale counts?

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>pouty dumpy Zoey girl
OH NO MY PENIS